| MS Clinical Care Connection |
| A Resource for Healthcare Professionals |
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| MS and COVID-19: A Webinar Series for Healthcare Providers |
Tuesday, June 30 | 6 p.m. ET
Join the National MS Society and the Consortium of MS Centers for a live webinar featuring Gavin Giovannoni, MBBCh, PhD, Chair of Neurology, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Aaron Miller, MD, Medical Director, Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis. This webinar will focus on disease modifying therapies and clinical decision-making in the COVID-19 era and will be moderated by Tim Coetzee, PhD, the Chief Advocacy, Services and Research Officer for the National MS Society. Submit questions with your registration or live during the webinar. |
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| MS Clinical Course Descriptors Clarification |
| The International Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials of MS published clarification of the concepts underlying the four disease courses of MS, highlighting the need for time framing the modifiers "activity" and "progression" and guidance for using "worsening" or "progression". |
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| Coronavirus and MS Reporting Database |
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| If you have a patient with MS, NMO or MOG antibody disease who has highly suspicious or laboratory confirmed COVID-19, we ask that you enter those cases into the database. As the purpose is outcomes of COVID-19, please report only after a minimum of 7 days and sufficient time has passed to observe the disease course through resolution of acute illness or death. |
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| COVID-19 and MS – Web Resources |
| Stay up-to-date with the latest in COVID-19 and MS on the Society’s Professional Resource Center webpage specific to healthcare professionals where you will find: |
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DMT recommendations |
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Professional publications |
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Telehealth and clinical practice resources |
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Recorded and upcoming webinars |
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Information and resources for your patients (also en Espaņol) |
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| ECHO MS |
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The National MS Society recently partnered with Project ECHO, a global movement that connects community providers with specialists at centers of excellence using interactive video technology. Providers will earn CE credits and gain new skills in the diagnosis and management of multiple sclerosis and specialists will learn new approaches for applying their knowledge across diverse cultural and geographic contexts. We will launch ECHO MS later this year with plans to have 60 community neurologists and advance practice providers participate.
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| Professional education opportunity |
| Multiple Sclerosis Pearls — Webinars for Healthcare Providers |
Monday, July 13 | 5:30 p.m. PST
Join us for a free, interactive webinar for MS healthcare professionals focused on cognition, symptom management and MRI. Physicians, nurses, PAs, psychologists and social workers can earn 1.5 CE credits.
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| Pediatric MS Difficult Case Webinars |
Next Webinar: Friday, July 10 | 4 p.m. EDT
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the United States Network for Pediatric MS Centers invite you to a monthly Difficult Case Webinar to discuss difficult cases of pediatric MS or other suspected demyelinating diseases.
Contact Darren Ball at darren.ball@nmss.org or 800-344-4867 ext. 57043.
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